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EXERCISE 20 OF 67
Run S51 · Part S5 (bars 9-18)
33 / 105 BARS COVERED
0 / 67 PASSED · 10 BARS LIT · IN THE PART S5
PART S5
PART K
PART O
PART W
PART Z
CHORUS
PART AL
OUTRO
16 groovesAHOKS5W+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 3
JOIN · 12
LINK · 1
SECTION · 12
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play thing on drums

97 bars at 185 BPM -- fast, and 1:59 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
185 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
1:59
DIFFICULTY
68/100

snare through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-26, kick and crashes through bars 27-29, hi-hat through bars 30-36, snare through bars 37-38 and hi-hat through bars 39-56, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-25 -- 7.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    19
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--x-x-o-x-x-x-x-|
SD |------x-----x---|
BD |xxx-x---x-x---xx|
thing -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 1, 6, 10, 12, 14, 18 and 19 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 54 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AH -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-19 -- 9 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 9-33 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 26-45 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part X -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  8. Through the Break 4 and Part X -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is thing?

185 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is thing hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 75 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

97 bars, about 1:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 18 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in thing?

12 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 1, 6, 10, 12, 14, 18 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 97 BARS ANALYSED